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By: Matt Gibberd
ISBN: 9780241480496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9780140436426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. This book discusses Swift's life and turbulent times, his political views and his powers as a writer of complex irony and intricate word play.
(Paperback)
By: Hisham Matar
ISBN: 9780241987056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: J L Carr
ISBN: 9780141182308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave.
(Paperback)
By: J L Carr
ISBN: 9780241972038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor.
(Hardback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241337288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241322420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780141196374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate.
(Hardback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241337127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9780241251782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' This title features three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay. It includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
(Paperback)
By: Eckhart Tolle
ISBN: 9780141039411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live.
(Paperback)
By: William Dampier
ISBN: 9780241413289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780140443295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1977
UK Publication Date: 28th July 1977
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. This title offers a selection of Nietzsche's writings.
(Paperback)
By: Meghan Quinn
ISBN: 9781405955799
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Guy de Maupassant
ISBN: 9780140448122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Include thirty-three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. This title explores the dualistic nature of the human character and reveals nobility, civility and generosity, vanity, greed, and hypocrisy.
(Paperback)
By: E M Forster
ISBN: 9780241214992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim.
(Paperback)
By: E.M. Forster
ISBN: 9780241540428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th December 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"First published by Edward Arnold 1924."--title page verso.
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By: Edmund Burke
ISBN: 9780140436259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1999
UK Publication Date: 26th November 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Intends to propound the author's theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. This work offers an account of our sensory, imaginative and judgmental processes and their relation to artistic appreciation.
(Paperback)
By: Keith Fisher
ISBN: 9780141999630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Holslag
ISBN: 9780241395561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: James Joyce
ISBN: 9780143108245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The story of the childhood and youth of an Irish poet-scholar, Stephen Dedalus, who questions his Catholic faith as he reaches manhood in turn-of-the century Dublin.
(Paperback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241550106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781405974042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Barack Obama
ISBN: 9780241491515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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